Hello everyone. We have a 2016 RPOD 171. I am building a wooden cabinet to install over the window above the bed. It will be curved to match the ceiling. I want to attached it to the ceiling and wall above the window. From what I've found the walls are made from tubular Aluminum. Any ideas on how to best locate these? Another assumption is that the roof is wood. Is it solid wood? From front to back. Thank you all for any insight. We love our RPOD.

shande81, you can find the frame using a stud good quality stud finder. It will pick up both metal and wood. As for the construction of the roof, I believe it is framed with 2x2's perpendicular to the walls that are attached to the aluminum wall frame. inside is fiberglass insulation and it's covered with a big single sheet of fiberglass that extends from the bottom front of the trailer over the roof and to the bottom real of the trailer. There are some videos of the fabrication of the rPod that you can take a look at that will give you a very good idea of the basic structure.

By the way, welcome to the board and congratulations on your new acquisition.

The flat section of the roof and the walls are framed with 1 inch square AL tubing. The curved roof sections contain wood stringers. I wouldn't recommend trying to attach anything significant to those, there's not much strength there.

If you have a cool humid morning you can often see where the structural members are are because of condensation differences.

I built a shelf that goes across the bed on my 179 - the walls are really not strong at all, you can only use extra-short molly bolts as the veneer skin is very thin. I built mine out of 1/8" underlayment plywood and 1/2" milled hemlock (Lowes carries it) which is strong and very lightweight. I wouldn't plan on anything that weighs more than 20-25 lbs loaded. We use ours for clothes in plastic baskets.

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